Mestre of our fairy band / Helena is here at hand

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From the Utah Daily Herald:

“Modern directors today that put on Shakespeare have the freedom to envision new and different ways of setting it, casting it and presenting it to a modern audience,” Jones said. “We’re setting our ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’ in a mystical South America in the 19th century. And so we have a lot of influences from Brazilian carnival and capoeira dancing [sic on the “dancing”].“

It’s Shakespeare in Brazil; iambic pentameter and capoeira, in one. Didn’t think anything could come closer to combining my two loves (English/literature and capoeira) more than writing this blog, but BYU has done it! And A Midsummer Night’s Dream is one of my favourites.